Can Paris fix its poop problem before the Olympics?
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Published 2024-07-09
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A key promise in Paris’s bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics was that its famous river, the Seine, would be cleaned up in time to host open water swimming events: the triathlon, para triathlon, and marathon swimming. But swimming has been banned in the Seine for a century because the Paris sewer system is designed to dump wastewater into the river during heavy rain, when the sewers get overwhelmed by stormwater.
When that happens, levels of E. coli, a bacteria associated with fecal matter, spike in the river, making it too contaminated to swim in. In order to make good on its promise to clean the river, Paris officials took on a $1.5 billion USD infrastructure project that includes a massive underground tank and tunnel system meant to hold excess sewage during heavy rain and prevent further contamination of the Seine.
Water quality testing will be done daily ahead of the Olympic games this summer, and Paris officials are hopeful their ambitious plan to host swimming in the famously polluted river will succeed.
Follow the daily water quality tests of the Seine from the City of Paris here:
www.paris.fr/pages/meteo-de-la-seine-quelle-est-la…
Check out some of the data used in this video, along with additional water quality tests, from Fluidion:
fluidion.com/open-data-initiative/2024-seine-water…
Are Olympians Going to Swim in Poop Water? – The Cut
www.thecut.com/article/olympics-2024-athletes-swim…
Will the Seine be ready for Olympic swimming? Paris officials 'confident.' – Washington Post
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/05/02/seine-clea…
Paris looking at Plan B if River Seine remains unfit for Olympic swimming – Global News
globalnews.ca/news/10606203/paris-olympics-river-s…
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All Comments (21)
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Stop this BetterHelp scam promotion
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i love how all the comments are just about betterhelp lol
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you guys literally wrote an article about BetterHelp's numerous controversies 😭
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BetterHelp is worse then all the poop combined in this video
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The video : Eeew, poop in the Seine The comments : Eeew, betterhelp in a Vox video
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BetterHelp is YouTube's poop problem
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Comments are 0.01% Poop 99.99% BetterHelp
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I’m still yet to find a comment that isn’t about better help but my search continues
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clicked off as soon as i saw you doing a better help sponsorship.. no integrity.
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Ah, BetterHelp as sponsor. If you value your privacy don't give them your data, they'll sell it.
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They should have fixed this poop problem a long time ago. It shouldn't take the Olympics coming to town to fix infrastructure
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i think it's pretty cool that regular people will be able to swim in the river after 100 years. wait i mean BOOO BETTERHELP
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"Better help" scams customers and shares the data to other 3rd parties without consent.
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i love how nobody actually cares about the video because of a sponsor
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"Let them eat poop." - Marie Antoinette, 2024
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As soon as I saw the sponsorship I thought "I bet the top 5 comments are all complaining about betterhelp"... little did I know it was every single comment 😂
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Betterhelp? There are better sponsor. Even no sponsor is better than those sharks with no moral integrity
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Jesus Christ, get better sponsors Vox. Do you know how harmful "better help" is?
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Better Help: The official sponsor of poop™.
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Laughed that Vox was doing a sponsored video and laughed even harder when I scrolled down and saw all the comments roasting the sponsor
